0. That thing where you sing a line of an embarrassing song really loud as a conversationally-apt joke for your boyfriend in the supermarket, then notice you know a) that there are other people in ear shot and b) you know them from dog walking. It’s only a little cringy.

1. The cats hide from the hoover and other cleaning activities in little curls on the bed. I coax Strange into fighting with her own tail then later, as I tidy away laundry, Tilda rubs against my legs.

2. The flaps of wings in the dark trees above: pigeons disturbed from their roosts by the noisy dog underneath. (Sorry pigeons.)

3. To finish all our chores in good time.

4. Between a delicious, simple dinner, and an extravagant meat & cheese platter, we play a game of Carcassonne. We’re getting good at it as a group and it’s becoming more like a game of Chess. The game is coloured by conniving moves and dastardly collaborations, but in the end it’s mostly about lucky picks and John’s last piece is the luckiest of them all: out of the hundred or so possibilities, it’s exactly the piece he needs.